{"id":541491,"date":"2026-04-05T04:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541491\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T04:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:38:13","slug":"malkin-has-hat-trick-penguins-score-6-goals-in-2nd-period-to-cruise-past-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541491\/","title":{"rendered":"Malkin has hat trick, Penguins score 6 goals in 2nd period to cruise past Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crosby had two assists to pass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/steve-yzerman-8452578\" title=\"Steve Yzerman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Yzerman<\/a> (1,755) for the seventh-most points all-time, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/erik-karlsson-8474578\" title=\"Erik Karlsson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Karlsson<\/a> had a goal and three assists for the Penguins (39-22-16), who have won three of four. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/rickard-rakell-8476483\" title=\"Rickard Rakell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rickard Rakell<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/anthony-mantha-8477511\" title=\"Anthony Mantha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Mantha<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/elmer-soderblom-8481725\" title=\"Elmer Soderblom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elmer Soderblom<\/a> each had a goal and an assist, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/arturs-silovs-8481668\" title=\"Arturs Silovs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arturs Silovs<\/a> made 19 saves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like every couple of games these guys hit another milestone,\u201d Pittsburgh coach Dan Muse said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like these minor milestones. These are big ones, these are some that you never really even get to see. It\u2019s incredible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins are second in the Metropolitan Division, 10 points behind the Carolina Hurricanes in first and five ahead of the New York Islanders in third.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/sergei-bobrovsky-8475683\" title=\"Sergei Bobrovsky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sergei Bobrovsky<\/a> allowed six goals on 19 shots before being pulled at 9:53 of the second period, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/daniil-tarasov-8480193\" title=\"Daniil Tarasov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniil Tarasov<\/a> made nine saves on 12 shots in relief for the Panthers (37-36-3), who have lost four of six. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/a-j-greer-8478421\" title=\"A.J. Greer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A.J. Greer<\/a> had a goal and an assist.<\/p>\n<p>Florida, which won the Stanley Cup each of the past two seasons, was eliminated from contention for the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt got away from us,\u201d Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. \u201cI mean, just the quickness of the game, for us, was a lot. The puck movement. So, we had touches on almost all of the pucks that ended up in our net. &#8230; We were slower than they were. Credit them, they were fast.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teams will play again here on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, we\u2019ll take a bunch from (this game),\u201d Florida forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/cole-schwindt-8481655\" title=\"Cole Schwindt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Schwindt<\/a> said. \u201cObviously, we\u2019re playing the exact same team, so clean things up that we need to and get another crack at them tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crosby had two assists to pass Steve Yzerman (1,755) for the seventh-most points all-time, and Erik Karlsson had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[62,57,5141,5,4,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-541491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-panthers","10":"tag-floridapanthers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116350255413764509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}